Elias de Vries

Elias de Vries was a member of South Africa's intelligence services during the apartheid era. De Vries was responsible for the efforts to arrest Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress during the 1960s, and he was one of the men that was most responsible for the atrocities committed against the Bantus of the country, including the arrests of Mandela and the ANC leadership and a 1976 massacre of protesting students in the Soweto Uprising.